CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Oscar Maritu

Congolese professional footballer born 1999

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ61901031 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oscar Taty Maritu (born August 17, 1999) is a Congolese professional footballer currently playing as a striker for Yunnan Yukun in the Chinese Super League.

Maritu began his youth career at Yanbian Funde before moving into their senior team in 2018. He later played for Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic. From 2020 to 2024, Maritu represented Cangzhou Mighty Lions in the Chinese Super League, registering 32 goals in 117 appearances.

Club career

Yanbian Funde

On 11 July 2018, Yanbian FC officially signed Oscar. It was reported that Oscar had been training with Yanbian youth team since 2017. He had his debut goal on 18 July against Shijiazhaung Ever Bright. For the 2018 season, he scored 10 goals in 15 matches, saving Yanbian from the relegation area.

Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics

Upon Yanbian's bankruptcy shortly before the 2019 season, Oscar was released and joined Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics on a free transfer. He scored twice to help Shaanxi win their first League One match.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Oscar Maritu” is congolese professional footballer born 1999. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Oscar, Maritu and Congolese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2018, 2020, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-08-17. For this dossier, Oscar, Maritu and Congolese is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “congolese professional footballer born 1999” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61901031. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2018, 2020 and 2024.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Oscar Maritu”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Oscar Maritu primary sources, Oscar Maritu archive and Oscar research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Oscar Maritu”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Oscar Maritu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.